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Kids living in Jamestown in 1607 ate breakfast from a breakfast bowl - just like you!

We know this because we archaeologists have found 400 year old bowls.

The Kids Page traveled to Kent to talk to Marion Green at the Canterbury Archaeological Trust.

Marion is taking her exhibit called the 'little dig' to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington D.C. American kids in Washington are going to use the little dig to practice being archaeologists.

What is the little dig?

You can listen to Marion talking about the little dig by clicking on the Canterbury Archaeological Trust Mole.

(MP3 4 MIN 09 SEC)

Marion Green talks about the Canterbury Archaeological Trust little dig exhbit at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2007 ©Canterbury Archaeological Trust

Kids working on the little dig. ©Canterbury Archaeological Trust

Model trenches like these are used in the little dig. Kids use them to practice being archaeologists. They dig away at the ground to find real archaeological treasures.

It is 400 years since the first English children made a home in America in a settlement called Jamestown. Some of the buried items are as old as Jamestown.

Other little dig artefacts are 2000 years old. There are even some skulls!

After the hard work comes the brain power.

Little dig kids learn to identify what they find. These artefacts from the Jamestown period will be on the reference table in Washington D.C.

The English settlers would have taken them across the Atlantic to use in their new homes.

One of these items is a chamber pot. Another is a money box. What do you think the other items are?

A selection of Jamestown period artefacts. ©Canterbury Archaeological Trust

Why is the little dig going to Washington D.C.?

Because links between the USA and UK go back a long way!

Marion Green is joining 40 other people from Kent at this year's Smithsonian Folklife Festival. They are there to celebrate the shared cultural roots between Kent and Virginia and to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Jamestown.

What animals do you think these bones came from?

Links

Kent and Northern Ireland at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival


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